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Item Number: 125576
Title: ANDREA POZZO & Video Art
Author: Burda-Stengel, Felix ; Hans Belting (intro)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780916101789
Description: Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2013. 31cm., hardcover, 179pp., 94 illus., many in color. English edition, orig. pub. Berlin 2001. Summary: The Jesuit lay brother and Baroque artist Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) was a master of illusionist perspective art. Burda-Stengel's' pioneering book, Andrea Pozzo and Video Art, provides a case study in the history of art and media by focusing on Pozzo's art in relation to the modern video art of Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, and Gary Hill. Before proceeding to this comparison, the author offers an overview of Pozzo's biography; situates the artist in the context of 17th-century interest in the natural sciences and optics and in relation to contemporaries such as Athanasius Kircher (1601/2-80), Jean-François Niceron (1613-46), and Emmanuel Maignan (1601-76); and presents a thorough analysis of three masterpieces of Pozzo's illusionist art: the church of St. Francis Xavier in Mondovì, the corridor to the rooms of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Roman Casa Professa, and the cupola and ceiling of the church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. Profusely illustrated with more than 90 color and black-and-white images, the book is rounded off by a bibliography and index. (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, 8)
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